# چنار
## Khalaj
### Noun

چِنار (çinâr) (definite accusative چِنارؽ, plural چِنارلار)
* Arabic spelling of çinâr (“oriental plane”)

#### Declension
## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* صنار (sınar) — from Arabic

### Etymology

Borrowed from Persian چنار (čenâr), itself from Middle Persian cynʾl (činār).

### Noun

چنار • (çınar)
* oriental plane, chinar, any deciduous tree of the species Platanus orientalis

#### Descendants

* Turkish: çınar
* → Albanian: çinar
* → Armenian: չընար (čʻənar)
* → Bulgarian: чина́р (činár)
* → Greek: τσινάρι (tsinári)
* → Macedonian: чинар (činar)

### Proper noun

چنار • (çınar)
* Çınar (a town and district in Diyarbakır province, Turkey)
    Synonym: خان آقپیكار (han akpıñar) (historical)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: Çınar

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çınar”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 967
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چنار”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 188b
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چنار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 475
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Platanus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1306
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چنار”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1658
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çınar”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Çınar”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چنار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 731
* Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Çınar”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎, 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 184

## Persian
### Alternative forms

* چنال (čenâl), صنار (senâr) (rare)

### Etymology

From Middle Persian cynʾl (činār).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [t͡ʃi.ˈnɑːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [t͡ʃʰɪ.nɑ́ːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [t͡ʃʰɪ.nɑ́ːɾ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [t͡ʃʰɪ.nɑ́ːɾ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [t͡ʃʰi.nɔ́ːɾ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [t͡ʃʰe.nɒ́ːɹ]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [t͡ʃʰi.nɔ́ɾ]

### Noun

| Dari | چنار |
| Iranian Persian | چنار |
| Tajik | чинор |
چنار • (čenâr) (plural چنارها (čenâr-hâ))
* chinar, oriental plane, Platanus orientalis
* Platanus

### Adjective

چنار • (čenâr)
* (slang) tall (of person)

### Descendants

* Armenian: չինար (čʻinar)
* Azerbaijani: çinar
* Georgian: ჩინარი (činari)
* → Gujarati: ચિનાર (cinār)
* Hindi: चिनार (cinār)
* Khalaj: çinâr
* Northern Kurdish: çinar
* Malayalam: ചിനാർ (cināṟ)
* Mingrelian: ჩინარი (činari)
* Russian: чинар (činar)
* Tatar: чинар (çinar)
* → Ottoman Turkish: چنار (çınar), صنار (sınar) — from Arabic
** Turkish: çınar
** → Albanian: çinar
** → Armenian: չընար (čʻənar)
** → Bulgarian: чина́р (činár)
** → Greek: τσινάρι (tsinári)
** → Macedonian: чинар (činar)
* → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਚਿਨਾਰ (cinār)
    Shahmukhi script: چنار (cinār)
* Uzbek: chinor
* Urdu: چنار (činar)

### See also

* چنار خاوری on the Persian Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{fa}$

### References

* MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “činār”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 22